picnic days

My red shoes are off, my legs tucked up underneath me on the chair, surrounded by a buttress of red skirt, true, but tucked nonetheless, as at a campfire, of earlier and more picnic days.

I was right glad of the trip myself, so it wasn't any work; but at the present speaking the days are not picnic days, and I must 'git.'

Indeed, except on picnic days, he had scarcely ever been outside of Dexter.

He's been goin' to Miss Phoebe's reg'lar now—all but the exhibition an' picnic days in the other schools—for nearly five months, not countin' off-an'-on days he went to her befo' he settled down to it stiddy.

And so ended, in supper and a night of deep dreamless sleep, one of the many happy picnic days of my New Zealand life.